tag: education

After 15 days of confinement due to COVID-19, with 2 adults working and 3 children attending school remotely, “WFH” is standing more closely to “Working from Hell” than “Working from Home”. 😱

Se educas o teu cavalo aos gritos, não esperes que te obedeça quando simplesmente lhe falas. — Dagobert D. Runes (via Guillermo Ballenato in Faltam regras na educação das crianças – Expresso.pt )

If we want to see women pay more equal to men, what we need to do is convince more women to go into areas such as the sciences, and the mathematics and engineering, and we need to convince men to take more responsibility for children in the house. When those begin to even out, we’ll see wages begin to even out as well. See also Thomas Sowell address these exact same concerns back in the 70s

There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure. Human beings are naturally different and diverse . Curiosity is what drives human life flourishing. Human life is inherently creative . Education is not a mechanical system, it’s a human system, it’s about people! (via Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley | Video on TED....

It’s a great day to make a mistake. Jennifer Gresham (via The perfectionism cure – Everyday Bright )

Quem tem medo compra um não Os medos são companheiros mais ou menos frequentes das crianças. Aumentam ou decaem consoante a maneira como os pais não os entendem ou os abrigam. Se os pais os acolhem e, de forma firme, persuadem os filhos a enfrentarem-nos, o semáforo amarelo apaga-se aos poucos. Se os ignoram, tornam-nos um pouco mais alaranjados. Se os almofadam por todos os lados, dão-lhe gás e eles ficam avermelhados....

Harvard Classics (Bookshelf) – Gutenberg The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot, that was first published in 1909. Dr. Eliot, then President of Harvard University, had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf....

Teen Brain (by zefrank1) Can you do a video on the fact that adults always tell teenagers “I know it feels like the end of the world”? Speaking as a teenager, I understand that my problems and emotions seem petty and insignificant compared to those of full grown adults, but if we are meant to learn responsibility and maturity, shouldn’t our elder spend less time telling us that our problems are small and more time helping us get through them?...

(via O que acontece quando você fica elogiando a inteligência de uma criança ) Por vezes parece que todos quem ter o seu “prodígiozinho sobredotado"… A verdadeira lição é o valor do esforço e do empenho, da superação das dificuldades, e não da superior inteligência ou "apanhar as coisas fácil”!

The Way of the Peaceful Parent :zenhabits Peace isn’t a place with no stress, but a place where you take the stress as it comes, in stride, and don’t let it rule you. You let it flow through you, and then smile, and breathe, and give your child a hug.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who’ve never had any. Bill Cosby (via The Way of the Peaceful Parent :zenhabits )

Circle of Security (source) Always: be Bigger, Stronger, Wiser, Kind Whenever possible: Follow your child’s need. Whenever necessary: Take charge.

There’s no speed limit! — Kimo’s high expectations set a new pace for me. He taught me “the standard pace is for chumps”. Derek Sivers